Recommendation Model Based on Probabilistic Matrix Factorization, Integrating User Trust Relationship, Interest Mining, and Item Correlation by Lifeng Han, Li Chen, Xiaolong Shi

“…Current research shows that social recommendations that effectively utilize user trust relationships can solve data sparsity and cold start problems common in traditional collaborative filtering algorithms. …”
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Following the Money: The Wire and Distant American Studies by Sven Cvek

“…A quick web search will show that it has appeared in curricula in film studies, media studies, urban studies, ethics, communication, criminal justice, sociology, social anthropology, and social work. …”
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Nowi Londyńczycy. 
Polscy emigranci na dużym (i małym) ekranie by Kris Van Heuckelom

“…Striking differences are observed between pre­1989 and post­1989 productions on the subject of labour migration. Whereas older films tend to depict Polish job­seekers as unfortunate troublemakers, films set in the post­communist period seem to convey increased social interaction between newcomers and local people which need not be hostile. …”
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Cyber-Reality of New Generations and McDonalization of Society and Media by Nenad Vertovšek

“…Beyond the Promised Land of computer screens, mobile phones, television and film screens that we, say apologists for mass media, destined, after the "perfection" of the current change is (not) unveiled the future of new media technology. …”
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The iterative frame: algorithmic video editing, participant observation and the black box by Rapoport, RS

“…Long before the advent of automated editing trance was an epistemological problem posed to film editing. In the iterative frame, for the first time, film grammar can echo ritual grammar and indeed become continuous with it. …”

Situating mean girls as post-feminist cult chick flick cum fantasy guide-to-life by Lim, Melanie Mei Hsia

“…"Mean Girls" convincingly addresses the complexities of comparison, envy and bullying that can affect and harm female relationships and proposes solutions to these problems. By examining the film’s usage of satire, “the female voice” and music, as well as by exploring the intersecting themes of male passivity, the girlfriend gaze, normative femininity and high-school jungle politics, my graduation essay will situate "Mean Girls" as a Post-Feminist cult chick flick cum fantasy guide-to-life that helps assist young girls and women navigate the challenges of contemporary male and female relationships.…”
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Information cascade prediction of complex networks based on physics-informed graph convolutional network by Dingguo Yu, Yijie Zhou, Suiyu Zhang, Wenbing Li, Michael Small, Ke-ke Shang

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Single polyelectrolyte multilayer fabricated by covalent layer-by-layer assembly of TA and PEI and its antibacterial application via incorporated Ag particles by Ong, Li Lian.

“…Bacterial contamination has all along posed as a serious problem in many areas which requires sterility to minimize microbial growth. …”
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Micron-smooth, robust hydrophobic coating for photovoltaic panel surfaces in arid and dusty areas by Guo, Rongrong, Wang, Yuanhao, Lu, Hao, Wang, Shifeng, Wang, Bohan, Zhang, Qiyu

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Politics and perversion (Pier Paolo Pasolini’s de Sade today) by Aronson Oleg

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Building a Small Cinema: Resisting Neoliberal Colonization in Liverpool by Anthony Kilick

“…These regeneration projects addressed the problem of a shrinking manufacturing base by replacing them with service industries, a move which has entailed the privatization of vast tracts of public space. …”
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Coyote optimization algorithm for the parameter extraction of photovoltaic cells by Chin, Vun Jack, Salam, Zainal

“…With these outstanding merits, the COA is envisaged to be a competitive option for the parameter extraction problem of PV cell/module.…”

THE DICTIONARY OF SNOWBOARDERS’ SOCIOLECT by Екатерина Игоревна Маштакова (Ekaterina I. Mashtakova)

“…In the same way as a subculture is a subsystem of culture, formed based on culture as the prevailing ethical, aesthetic and worldview system, social dialect is formed on the basis of lexical systems of the dominant language code and other subcodes. …”
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Theorem Verification of the Quantifier-Guided Dominance Degree with the Mean Operator for Additive Preference Relations by José Ramón Trillo, Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Francisco Chiclana, María Ángeles Martínez, Francisco Mata, Enrique Herrera-Viedma

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Kiev of the Soviet-Era from Parajanov’s point of view: “Kiev Frescoes” by Tigran Simyan

“…Examination of the screenplay reveals that Parajanov was preparing to create a Soviet film thematically, and a modernist one by means of visualization. …”
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GDF5 SNP rs143383 is associated with lumbar disc disease in northern European women. by Williams, F, Popham, M, Hart, D, de Schepper, E, Bierma-Zeinstra, S, Hofman, A, Uitterlinden, A, Arden, N, Cooper, C, Spector, T, Valdes, A, van Meurs, J

“…OBJECTIVE: Lumbar degenerative disc disease (LDD) is a serious social and medical problem which has been shown to be highly heritable. …”

Nanosheet Zinc Oxide Synthesized by Solution-Immersion Method for Triboelectric Nanogenerator by Dayana Kamaruzaman, Mohamad Hafiz Mamat, A. Shamsul Rahimi A. Subki, Nurul Izzati Kamal Ariffin, Megat Danial Aizat Megat Zulkifli, Nurul Syafiqah Mohamed Mustakim, Norfarariyanti Parimon, Muhammad Kamil Yaakob, Mohd Firdaus Malek, Nagamalai Vasimalai, Mohd Hanapiah Abdullah, Nor Diyana Md Sin, Suriani Abu Bakar, Mohd Khairul Ahmad

“…Most global problems are being solved by using sustainable energy harvesting technologies to retain the social ecosystem in great condition. …”
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Computerised analysis of facial emotion expression in eating disorders. by Jenni Leppanen, Marcela Marin Dapelo, Helen Davies, Katie Lang, Janet Treasure, Kate Tchanturia

“…Problems with social-emotional processing are known to be an important contributor to the development and maintenance of eating disorders (EDs). …”
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Possessiveness as an Inductor of Deformation of Consciousness as in Illusions of Perceptions by Mikhail I. Yanovsky

“…The research features the effect of possessiveness on consciousness. The problem was posed by K. Marx in the hypothesis that the consciousness of an individual depends on belonging to a certain social class, the differences between which are determined by relations with the ownership of the means of production. …”
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Memory of “Green Construction” in Omsk in the 1950s–1960s: Gender Aspect by Natalya Lvovna Pushkareva, Alexander Vladimirovich Zhidchenko

“…This article analyses the features of women’s social memory about the everyday life of a non-capital Soviet city of the late 1950s — early 1960s. …”
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